Update May 7, 2017: Please note that we had to disable the phrase search operator (.) and the boolean not operator (-) due to technical problems. For the time being, phrase search queries will yield regular prefix search result, and search terms preceded by a minus will be interpreted as regular (positive) search terms.

News and announcements

2017-09-15: The first 700k: dblp starts integrating ORCIDs

ORCID (http://orcid.org) is a widely used persistent identifier scheme for researchers. As of September 2017, there are more than 3.8 million registered ORCIDs of which about 800,000 have at least one publication listed in the public ORCID corpus. Many publishers will now ask their authors to provide an ORCID when submitting or publishing a paper. We encourage all researchers to register and map their ORCID with their publications.

A few weeks ago, we started first experiments with integrating ORCIDs into dblp. At the moment, there are about 700,000 signatures (i.e., author-publication pairs) in dblp for which we know an ORCID. This is about 6% of all signatures. We expected ORCIDs to help us identify authors and create clear, unambiguous author bibliographies (see How does dblp handle homonyms and synonyms). We were not disappointed. For the initial import, we found in our corpus

600 cases where an author profile was related to more than one ORCID. This indicates that the profile actually lists publications from different authors.

5000 cases where the same ORCID appears in more than one author profile.

We are currently processing these cases. While we found several cases where ORCID information is wrong (e.g., authors accidentally claiming publications that where written by someone else), the data is very reliable in general. However, according to our philosophy, manual confirmation is needed. This will take some time.

A detailed description on ORCIDs on the dblp web interface and in the data dump can be found at in our F.A.Q.s.

We will keep you posted on development.

2017-09-05: Further modifications to dblp's XML format

With the latest release of the dblp XML data dump, we made some extensions to the document type definition (DTD) of the XML format. The goal of these changes is to lay the groundwork for a number of planned extensions of the dblp data model that will be realized at a later date.

With the latest release of the dblp XML data dump, we made some extensions to the document type definition (DTD) of the XML format. The goal of these changes is to lay the groundwork for a number of planned extensions of the dblp data model that will be realized at a later date.

Regular users of the web site or other export formats – like the BibTeX export – are not affected.

We encourage you to update any local copy of the dblp.dtd file on your system and adjust data import code accordingly. The new DTD should be compatible with all earlier dblp XML dumps. First changes to the actual dblp data records that make use of these changes are expected to be made not before mid of October.

Thanks to the search API provided by our friends at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), we have added a new full-text search option to dblp. By choosing "Semantic Scholar search" as your default search action in the drop down menu next to the search bar, searching will now retrieve documents from dblp based on matches within the full texts as indexed by the Semantic Scholar service. Since dblp usually does not have access to the full texts of research articles, this is something that has not been possible before. Please try it for yourself.

The new search option is currently an experimental feature (which may still break once in a while) and we will be happy to hear your thoughts and comments about it.

2016-08-11: DBIS group seeks research assistant (computer science)

The research group of Ralf Schenkel (chair of Database and Information Systems at the University of Trier) which is (co-)hosting the dblp computer science bibliography seeks to hire a research assistant (TV-L 13). For more information, please see the official job posting (in German only).